People may do what they wish with their hair.
I'm just surprised I haven't seen this more often.
Yeah ,I agree and wore my hair below my shoulders back in the day, have friends who were beaten badly for having long hair in the late 60's early 70's .Fact is there were guys in two bands that would pay me to travel with them to take care of the occasional "red neck" who wanted to bully them for their hair cuts,REALLY funny that now so many "red necks " wear their hair like what old time "red necks" wanted to beat people up over. Back then it took GUTS to wear your hair long, dunno if any of ya ever saw the movie "Joe" with Peter Boyle,but it was serious non fiction, like I said friends beaten badly ,one who spent a week in the hospital and walked with a limp the rest of his life
My position though is that the hair hanging outside the helmet is no different than jewely and aught to be a uniform violation,I will say that permitting it would not be a practice if the order of it's popularity had been ,black players doing it THEN white players doing it.
I think and always have that the "pretty boy " from GB ....Matthews, needs to tuck his locks under the helmet too ,I think if it obscures your name it diminishes among other things an officials ability to identify you ( have no idea why else the name WOULD be there if identification wasn't the objective).
In the END 'hopper, I support guys with dreads wearing their hair as statements if that is what they wish or just to pick up babes if that is what they wish,if they are too "lazy or cheap to get a hair cut ,but ALL within the context of forums to which they are entitled,I just think it's curious that in a league where you can get fined for the wrong socks, shirts un tucked ,wrong color shoes ,they let people wear their hair in a way that materially effects play and safety.
I think the "hair is part of the uniform" and fair game to be used to bring the ball carrier down at minimum aught to be re-examined and THAT you can't wear a "tear away jersey" dictates "tear away hair" as in extensions is the same principle.